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not more, fests to attend each month. No matter what you like, you
can find a festival for every taste and special interest, like The Bicycle Festival,
celebrating all things on two wheels. And this doesn’t include specially
programmed fests that outfits like the Film Forum and the Pioneer
Theatre regularly put together. Here’s
a sampler of 25 local fests, mostly in
Manhattan but a couple from Queens and Brooklyn for good measure. (17 November 2006)Read more...

Need to Know: Where'd All the Old Theaters Go?I love
the retro film fests at Film Forum. When I first moved to New York, in
the early 80s, you could catch retro films at half a dozen or more
indie theaters. Inspired by the Victor Fleming Fest, I set off on a digital search for those old theaters where you could smoke and drink through a well-curated double bill. (4 March 2010)Read more...

NEWS ARCHIVE

A Transplant's Debt to the MOFTBNew York films are what
make those of us who grew up anywhere else want to move here when we
grow up. We see Diane Keaton and Woody Allen capping off an odd and
elegant evening with hot dogs under the 59th St. Bridge,
Dustin Hoffman going to town on the hood of a taxi in the middle of a
busy intersection, Cher strolling home in Brooklyn Heights under an
impossibly big moon, Audrey Hepburn sitting on a fire escape strumming a
guitar, and we get a glimpse of ourselves leading a different life. (15 November 2006)Read more...

Two local indie film-making teams were featured in the Exposure short film special on Sundance Channel and SciFi Channel (now Syfy). The one-hour show spotlighted nine shorts chosen by voters in an eight-week online contest, including (blatant self-promotion ensues...) MsManhattan's own RF EYE-D. (18 April 2007)Read more...

Made-in-New-York Web SeriesI'm sometimes preoccupied with
wondering what it would have been like to grow up in New York. A friend who grew up on the Upper East Side says I
romanticize his life when I imagine erudite
discourse around the family dinner table, Saturday mornings in Central Park, a high school where even the dumb kids are smart. He's right: I do have a romantic notion about
being a teenager in New York. The key word is teenager: No matter where you are, you've got the built-in Life Sucks factor. Filmed here, Anyone But Me
is a Web series that offers a fresh and frank perspective on coming
of age in New York in the post-9/11 world. (4 December 2008)Read more...